Red and yellow a kill a fellow. Red and black venom lack. That is the poem I was taught as a kid to distinguish coral snakes from their mimics and although one should have more concrete proof than poetry before dealing with a potentially highly venomous snake, if repeated correctly it is accurate. Coral...
Looking through my archives, I found this photo of a nice buck I took near the Sabine River in Newton County in 2004. Would this buck be legal? Would you have shot it? Believe it or not, this one is just under 13 inches. Thank goodness I took this buck before the regulations came...
Back in June David Trove of Baytown won a trip to fish with yours truly at the TF&G Family Fishing Clinic. This morning we made good on the trip but things didn’t look good at first. The wind started off blowing 15 miles per hour and ended up at steady clip of around 25....
I have been thinking of my outdoors writing mentor Ed Holder a lot lately. This is the man that took me under his wind and helped me more than anyone in the outdoors communication world. We did not always see things the same way but I always respected who he was. He has been...
The “River Monsters” series on Animal Planet has got lots of people talking about bull sharks in our local rivers. Host Jeremy Wade has done a few episodes dealing with this aggressive species, which can live in totally freshwater. Do bull sharks dwell above the saltwater line in Texas waters? I have absolutely no...